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Donald Trump recently used the pejorative to attack Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, adding to a chorus of right-wing influencers ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

Originalism ensures stability because it makes the Constitution predictable. Citizens and lawmakers know what the document ...

As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.

In Ohio, lawmakers passed a new bill that authorizes public school and state university teachers to instruct on the “positive ...

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A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People’s History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that ...

MR. MCMASTER gives notice of the school to which he belongs when he entitles his history of the United States A History of the People of the United States. 1 The late Mr. J. R. Green was not precisely ...

December 7 marks the 84th anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. This fateful event took away over 2,400 ...